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Goodbye ‘Racial Democracy’? B razilian Identity, Official Discourse and the Making of a ‘Black’ Heritage Site in R io d e J aneiro
Author(s) -
CICALO ANDRÉ
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12636
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , democracy , faith , identity (music) , gender studies , political science , sociology , law , aesthetics , politics , art , theology , philosophy
This article explores the racial thinking in Brazilian governance exposed during the creation of a Circuit of African Heritage in the port area of Rio de Janeiro from 2011 on. The Circuit and the policy discourses that have surrounded its establishment are visibly framed within a philosophy of ethno‐racial recognition and multiculturalism, which apparently suggests a rupture from the long‐established discourse of mixture and racial democracy in Brazil. Nonetheless, a careful analysis of the creation of the Circuit of African Heritage indicates that policy discourse is not conclusively unsettling the country's traditional faith in a shared, colour‐blind national identity.